Exposing Your King to Attack
The King is unlike any other piece. In every game of chess, the object,direct or potential, is to checkmate your opponent's King.
No matter how the game proceeds, no matter what your plans may be, you must guard
your King and look for opportunities to menace your opponent's King.
Since the King's safety controls the fate of the game, you take unnecessary risks whenever you expose your King to attack. One of the most common ways to endanger the King is to leave him on his original square in the middle of the back rank. The other chess pieces are most active in the center and exert their greatest power in that area.
Consequently, the King is most vulnerable at his original square. Leaving the King in the center is particularly dangerous in "open" positions - those in which there are open files. Such open lines are highways along which the Queen and Rooks can operate to menace the hostile King. (In "closed" position - those in which the Pawn position is locked - a King may be fairly safe in the center.)
Leaving the King in the center sometimes leads to ferocious "King-hunts." In the course of such a savage drive on a hostile King, he may be hounded all the way from his original square to the other side of the board. The King-hunt is the extreme example of the helplessness of a King stranded in the center and exposed to the fury of the hostile pieces.
*****************
Discover How To Dramatically Improve Your Chess Playing Skills In
As Little As 7 Days, Guaranteed!
...Check out "Chess Success Secrets" today!
*****************
No matter how the game proceeds, no matter what your plans may be, you must guard
your King and look for opportunities to menace your opponent's King.
Since the King's safety controls the fate of the game, you take unnecessary risks whenever you expose your King to attack. One of the most common ways to endanger the King is to leave him on his original square in the middle of the back rank. The other chess pieces are most active in the center and exert their greatest power in that area.
Consequently, the King is most vulnerable at his original square. Leaving the King in the center is particularly dangerous in "open" positions - those in which there are open files. Such open lines are highways along which the Queen and Rooks can operate to menace the hostile King. (In "closed" position - those in which the Pawn position is locked - a King may be fairly safe in the center.)
Leaving the King in the center sometimes leads to ferocious "King-hunts." In the course of such a savage drive on a hostile King, he may be hounded all the way from his original square to the other side of the board. The King-hunt is the extreme example of the helplessness of a King stranded in the center and exposed to the fury of the hostile pieces.
*****************
Discover How To Dramatically Improve Your Chess Playing Skills In
As Little As 7 Days, Guaranteed!
...Check out "Chess Success Secrets" today!
*****************
posted by James Wilson at 12:35 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home